Apache Sling > Sling CMS > Developers > Reference Project
The reference project provides a number of example components to use, develop on or extend.
These components are:
- base page - a basic page using the Apache Sling website styling
- breadcrumb - breadcrumb based on the page hierarchy
- cta - a call to action link / button
- codeblock - displays a block of code in a
<pre>tag - columncontrol - allows authors to create columns of content
- form - adds a form to a page
- iframe - allows for adding an iframe
- image - a block level image allowing linked and styled images
- list - a base component for creating dynamic lists
- search - a simple search component using JCR Queries to search page content
- sitemap - renders an XML sitemap
- stylewrapper - wraps in a div with a defineable set of selectable styles
- suffixheader - displays a header based on the jcr:title of the resource in the Sling Suffix
- rss - renders an RSS feed backed on a query
- tags - displays the taxonomy tags on a page
In addition to these reference components, there are two general use components in the main ui project. These are found at /libs/sling-cms/components/general and are:
- container - a container into which other components can be added. This is the most foundational component in Sling CMS allowing for component-driven content development
- rte - a HTML based rich text editor using wysihtml as the RTE
- textelement - a block level text element which can be run through i18n
There are a number of components specifically for configuring the form.
Form Value Provider
- requestparameters - Loads form values from the request parameters
- suffixresource - Loads form values from the suffix resource
- userprofile - Loads form field values from the current user's profile subnode
Form Field
- fieldset - displays a HTML Fieldset for grouping fields, with an optional legend
- honeypot - adds a spam-blocking honeypot to the form, should be hidden from view, any submission with this field filled out will be blocked
- selection - allows for the users to select from options defined in tags, can be rendered as radio, checkboxes or a dropdown
- textfield - basic text field with support for HTML5 types
- textarea - basic text area
Form Actions
- createuser - creates a new user based on the form data
- deleteugc - deletes user generated content
- requestpasswordreset - requests a password reset
- resetpassword - resets the password for a user
- sendemail - sends an email
- updateprofile - updates the user's profile
- updateugc - updates user generated content
- usergeneratedcontent - creates user generated content